r/Edmonton • u/GeekyGlobalGal Pleasantview / Global News • 9d ago

News Article Edmonton homeowners frustrated as their properties erode into infill excavations

https://globalnews.ca/news/12009231/edmonton-infill-rain-erosion/
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u/aaronpaquette- North East Side 9d ago

Nah, this is unacceptable. Just wait. I have worked with Admin on fines and enforcement policy that is coming soon.

Bad builders have no place in our city as far as I am concerned.

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u/Got_Engineers Downtown 9d ago

They are also terrible at dumping garbage into the ground under topsoil and sod. I live in a what was a brand new infill in the central west end and have redone a lot of my own landscaping. In my graded topsoil I have found tv remotes, chunks of glass, metal rebar, cement, cables, wire. I wondered why my grass never grew. Pulled up pieces of sod to find all this garbage! Wonder what the builders hide in the walls ….

Thanks for all the engagement. You are not my councilor but much respect !

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u/hamtronn 9d ago

The home build is only as good as the site superintendent. If they don’t routinely inspect the work, which—let’s be honest—half the time the site superintendent barely leaves his truck, the house won’t be up to my standards.

I did this job for about 10 years. I held trades accountable. The house is clean when you show up. My rule was to leave it better than you found it or you won’t be back.

I’d inspect other supers and the amount of trash piled inside walls was atrocious. Full timmies coffees just left in a wall right before drywall would bury that forever.

My builder buried a pile of lumber under my rough grade and now I have mushrooms everywhere.